If this were one of those realistic zolaesque stories I would describe the crick in the back that-but let us hurry on.
"The Man Upstairs and Other Stories"
P. G. Wodehouse
I once printed an article exposing what seemed to me to be a zolaesque attitude of mind, and even some trace of the actual Zola manner, in "Jennie Gerhardt"; there came from Dreiser the news that he had never read a line of Zola, and knew nothing about his novels.
"A Book of Prefaces"
H. L. Mencken